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November 04, 2020


November 03, 2020
• CNN Election Night In The U.S. Live Results; Close Election May Come Down To AZ, PA, MI, WI; Down To The Wire In Key Battleground States; Biden At 205, Trump At 114 Electoral Votes. Aired 11p-12a ET
• CNN's Key Race Alert For The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Aired 10-11p ET
• CNN's Projection On The State Of New York; CNN Projection: Donald Trump Will Win The State Of South Carolina; CNN's Projection On The Senate Race In Colorado. Aired 9-10p ET
• Biden Wins DE, DC, MD, MA, VT; Trump Wins IN, KY, TN, OK. Aired 8-9p ET
• America's Choice 2020; Trump Wins IN; Too Early To Call GA, KY, SC, VT, VA. Aired 7-8p ET
• America's Choice 2020; First Statewide Polls Close At 7:00 P.M. Eastern Time In Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia. Aired 6-7p ET
• America's Choice 2020; First Statewide Polls Close At 7 P.M.; MI Officials: Votes Will Be Counted Sooner Than Expected. Aired 5-6p ET
• America's Choice 2020. Aired 4:30-5p ET
• U.S. Election Day. Aired 4-4:30p ET
• Voting Underway as First Polls Close in 3 Hours; NY Attorney General Probing Reports of Robocalls to "Stay Home"; Trump Campaign Says It's Funding Election Night War Room in White House. Aired 3:30- 4p ET
• Interview With Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar; Election Day Arrives. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Inside the Trump Campaign's Moves in the Last Hours; Official: FBI Probing Robocalls Telling Voters to "Stay Home"; Democrats Push Hard to Make Biden 1st Democrat to Win Texas Since 1976; Biden Speaks in Pennsylvania; Katie Hobbs, (D), Arizona Secretary of State, Discusses Presidential Race in the Crucial State. Aired 2:30-3p ET
• Record Turnouts Around the Country on Election Day; Live Coverage of Vice Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris' (D) Speech; North Carolina Extends Some Poll Closures After Technical Malfunctions. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• Kamala Harris Speaks to Reporters in Detroit; USPS Ordered to Sweep Some Facilities by 3 P.M. for Election Mail; Biden's Likeliest Route to the White House; Trump's Realistic Path to Re-election; Biden Campaigns in Battleground Pennsylvania, the State that Could Determine the Election Outcome; Maine Crucial Due to Split Electoral Votes & Maine District 2; How the Election Results Will Affect U.S. Relationships with Countries Around the World. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Trump Visits RNC Offices in Virginia; Voting Underway Across U.S., 102 Million Early Votes Already Cast. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Voting Underway Across U.S.; 100M Early Votes Already Cast; U.S. On Edge As Americans Await First Election Results. Aired 12:30-1p ET
• Election Day in the U.S. During a Pandemic; U.S. Citizens Are Making Their Voices Heard In All 50 States Right Now As Polls Are Open. Aired 12-12:30p ET
• Election Officials Are Telling Me They're Expecting Big Lines Closer To The End Of Polling; Coverage Of Election Day 2020; Republicans Feel Better About This Race Than They Did Three Or Four Weeks Ago. Aired 11:30a-12p ET
• One Thing Democrats And Republicans Agree On Is That The Stake Of This Election Have Never Been Higher; Record Voter Turn Out This Year With More Than 100 Million Ballots Cast Before Voting Even Started; Special Coverage Of Election Day In America. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Joe Biden Promising Americans To Return The U.S. To Its More Traditional Role; Top White House Officials Are Warning And Sounding Alarms About The Pandemic; Kamala Harris Traveling All Over The Country About Protocols When It Comes To COVID. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Americans Head to Polls in Pandemic for Historic Election; Biden, Trump Make Public Appearances as Americans Vote. Aired 10- 10:30a ET
• Polling Opens in New Hampshire; Trump and Biden Make Appearances Today; Trump Says Decision in Pennsylvania Induces Violence; Tight Race in North Carolina. Aired 9:30-10a
• Voting Underway Across America in Historic Election; Biden Visits His Hometown Scranton to Vote; Americans Head to the Polls Today to Choose Between Trump and Biden. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Stacey Abrams is Interviewed about Georgia's Voting; Pandemic Rages on Election Day. Aired 8:30-9a ET
• Voting Begins on Election Day in U.S.; Record Ballots Cast in Early and Mail-In Voting; All But One Drive-Through Voting Place Closed in Texas County; Most Drive-Thru Voting Locations to Close in Houston Area. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Washington Post: Dr. Birx Pleads for "More Aggressive Action" Against Virus; Americans Head to the Polls Today to Choose Between Donald Trump and Joe Biden; Allegheny County in Pennsylvania Begin Processing Absentee Ballots. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• Americans Head to the Polls, 100 Million Already Voted; Polls Open in Critical Battleground State Michigan. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Birx Contradicts Trump on Virus Testing; Battle for Electoral Votes; FEC Urges Patience; U.S. Economy on the Ballot. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• Election Day Underway in U.S., Nearly 100 Million Votes Already Cast; Most Drive-Through Voting Locations to Close in Houston Area Today. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Coronavirus Pandemic Rages Across U.S. On Election Day; Polls Open Soon In Critical Battleground Pennsylvania. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Americans Head to the Polls, Nearly 100 Million Already Voted; Pandemic Rages Across U.S. on Election Day. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• Coronavirus Infections Surging Across Nation as Voters Hit Polls; 12 Million Plus Americans Unemployed, No New Stimulus as Voters Head to Polls; Early Voting Shatters Records Ahead of Election; The World is Watching as American Votes. Aired 4:30-5a ET
• Trump and Biden Deliver Starkly Different Closing Arguments; Americans Heading to Polls in High-Stakes Presidential Election; Path to 270: Scenarios for a Trump or Biden Victory; Coronavirus Infections Surging Across Nation as Voters Hit Polls. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• Nation on Edge as Americans Head to Polls in High-Stakes Presidential Election; President Trump and Joe Biden Deliver Starkly Different Closing Remarks; State of Elections in the Three Big Swing States; Key Senate Races That Could Tilt the Balance of Power; Reality Check on State of the U.S. Economy; 12 Million Americans Unemployed, Now New Stimulus; Cities Brace for Election Unrest, Businesses Boarding Up; Dr. Birx Warning U.S. Entering Most Deadly Phase of this Pandemic; U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Warns COVID-19 Deaths Could be Twice as Bad in Second Wave. Aired 3-4a ET
• Americans Heading to Polls in High-Stakes Presidential Election; Judge Rejects GOP Efforts to Halt Early Vote Counting in Las Vegas; Twitter Flags, Restricts Trump Tweet about Mail-in Voting in Pennsylvania; Path to 270; Dr. Deborah Birx Calls for More Aggressive Action on U.S. Virus Response. Aired 2-3a ET
• ELECTION NIGHT AMERICA With Chris Cuomo; Closing Moves Of The Campaign: Where They Were Today; Trump Describes PA Supreme Court Decision As "Dangerous"; Trump's Reoccupy White House Through Small Town Rural America; Pennsylvania: Trump's Path To 270, Then And Now; Election Day in America; Nearly 100 Million Americans Have Already Voted; Five Things to Watch for Tonight. Aired 1-2a ET
• First Election Day Votes Cast In 2020 Race; Election Day Underway in U.S.; Nearly 100M Early Ballots Cast, 73 percent of Total Votes in 2016; Texas Clerk to Close Nine Out of 10 Drive-in Polling Places; Top COVID-19 Advisor Warns Pandemic Entering New, Deadly Phase. Aired 12-1a ET


November 02, 2020
• Candidates Focus on Swing States in Final Election Sprint; President Trump is Sowing Seeds of Doubt on Votes After Election; Coronavirus Pandemic is Raging in the United States; The Political Divide Over Face Masks; Trump Suggests He Might Fire Dr. Fauci if Reelected; Court to Hear Drive-Thru Voting Challenge; Source Tells Trump Campaign Prepared to Declare Victory Even if Many Ballots Have Not Been Counted; Trump and Biden Race to Shore Up Votes in Final Hours Before Election Day; FBI Investigating Confrontation Between Trump Supporters and Biden Campaign Bus; Civil Rights Groups Condemn NC Pepper Spray Attack; Americans are Worried About Post-Election Unrest. Aired 3-4a ET
• Trump Campaign Prepared to Declare Victory Even Before Counting of Ballots Completed; Trump Tries to Raise Doubts on Counting Ballots after Election Day; Trump and Biden on Last Day of Campaign; FBI Investigates Alleged Harassment of Biden Bus Campaign by Trump Supporters; Republicans Take Election Fight to Courts; Trump Threatens Legal Action Over Speed Of Vote Count; Source: Trump Campaign Prepared To Declare Victory Even If Many Ballots Have Not Been Counted, Trump Denies Story; Latino Voters Could Play Key Role In Battleground States; Trump Suggests Me Fire Dr. Fauci If Rejected; Trump Holding Rallies As COVID-19 Cases Surge. Aired 2-3a ET
• Dueling Campaigns In Last Day Blitz; Biden & Trump: Here, There And Everywhere Today; Trump Plans To Declare Premature Victory, Says Advisor; Court Orders USPS To Take Extraordinary Measures; Arizona Vote Pivotal To Election; Youth Voters 18-29 Vote Big And Vote Early; Women Voters May Hold Key to Election; COVID Cases Soar in U.S. as the Presidential Race Winds Down; Tracking the Global COVID-19 Threat; Actor Billy Eichner Encourages Americans to Vote. Aired 1-2a ET
• Trump Playing Defense Across Wide Swath of States; Biden Tries to Lock In Support of Pennsylvania Voters; Trump Threatens Legal Action Over Speed of Vote Count; Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D-PA) is Interviewed about the Election; Emergency Hearing Soon on Texas Drive- Through Voting; Trump Suggests He May Fire Fauci After the Election. Aired 12-1a ET


November 01, 2020
• Trump Rails Against Possible Delays In Vote Counting Says Campaign Lawyers Will "Go In" To Pennsylvania Election Night; White house Adviser Atlas Apologizes For Russian State TV Interview; At Least 31 States Set Single-Day Coronavirus Case Records In October; Trump Spends Final Days Sowing Doubt On Election Results. Aired 11p- 12a ET
• Source: Trump May Declare Victory On Election Night If He Is Close To 270 Electoral Votes, Trump Denies Claim; Trump Spends Final Days Sowing Doubt On Election Results; Biden, Trump Fight For Votes In Key States In Final Days; Early Voting Surpasses Two-Thirds Of All 2016 Ballots Cast; W.H. Adviser Atlas Apologizes For Russian State T.V. Interview; Dr. Fauci Sharpens Criticism Of Trump's COVID-19 Response; Polls Show Biden Leads Trump In Michigan, Wisconsin Amid Democratic Hopes To Rebuild "Blue Wall". Aired 10-11p ET
• Trump Campaign Said to be Preparing to Declare Victory on Election Night; Texas GOP Activists to Ask Federal Court to Toss Thousands of Drive-Thru Votes; Interview with Jaime Harrison (D) about Senate Candidacy in South Carolina; Interview with Wisconsin Secretary of State Meagan Wolfe about Mail-in Ballots; Battle for Pennsylvania. 9-10p ET
• Trump Spends Final Days Sowing Doubt on Election Results; Biden Says He's Not Going to Let Trump Steal This Election; Texas Supreme Court Denies GOP-Led Petition to Invalidate Drive-Thru Votes; Breakdown of the Road to 270 Electoral Votes; FBI Investigates Alleged Harassment of Biden Campaign Bus by Trump Supporters; Postal Service Officials Push Workers to Deliver Ballots on Election Day; Interview with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson about Counting Ballots on Election Day; Deciding to Wear a Mark or Not Becoming a Political Statement. Aired 8-9p ET
• Trump Denies Reports He Plans to Declare Victory on Election Night; Early Voting Shatters Records with 93.5 Million Ballots Cast; Dr. Scott Atlas Apologizes for Interview with Russian Propaganda Network. Aired 7-8p ET
• Trump, Biden Storm Key States As First Polls Close In 48 Hours; White House Official Says, Dr. Atlas Did Not Have Clearance To Do Interview With Russian Propaganda Network, Did It On His Own; Biden Urges People To Vote In Pennsylvania, Trump Casts Doubt On Mail-in Voting; Interview With Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro About Ballot Counting; Global Conflict Watchers Warn U.S. Of Election Violence; Biden, Trump Fight For Votes In Critical Michigan In Final Days. Aired 6-7p ET
• Biden And Trump Entering Final Sprint Of Campaign; Dr. Scott Atlas Apologizes Over Interview With Russian Outlet; Worry Over U.S. Postal Service In Final Week Of Election; Dr. Anthony Fauci Issues Warning On COVID-19; Cities Prepare For Election Unrest. Aired 5-6p ET
• Trump, Biden Barnstorm Battleground States with Two Days to Go. Aired 4-5p ET
• Trump Campaigns in Iowa as part of Battleground Blitz; USPS Reports Another Drop in On-Time Movement of Ballots; FBI Investigating Alleged Harassment of Biden Campaign Bus. Aired 3-4p ET
• Trump & Biden Make Last-Minute Swing Through Battleground States; Police In NC Use Pepper Spray To Break Up March To Polling Place; USPS Reports Another Drop In On-Time Movement Of Ballots; Fauci Unleashes On WH Pandemic Approach Ahead Of Election; Trump Campaigns In Iowa As Part Of Battleground Blitz; Trump Slams Supreme Court Decision On Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots; Democrats Eye Senate Takeover As GOP Fights To Hold Control. Aired 2-3p ET
• Trump And Biden Square Off In Key States Two Days Before Election; Trump Makes Campaign Stop In Iowa; Biden Cancels Texas Event. Aired 1-2p ET
• Stakes High, Tensions High: Two Days Till Election Day; Campaign Coverage From Six Key States; Ninety-One Americans Have Already Voted; Get Out The Vote Protest Turns To Chaos; Cities Board Up For Post-Election Unrest; Scott Atlas Debuts On Russian TV As Coronavirus Denier; Trump Draws Enthusiastic Crowds As Race Tightens; Campaigns Crisscross Critical Sunbelt States; Biden Makes Last-Minute Pitch In Ohio; Georgia's Open Senate Seats Conflict. Aired 12-1p ET
• Fauci Publicly Slams Trump's Top COVID-19 Adviser; New Hampshire's Older Women Send Message to Trump; Former Intel Chief Warns of Russian Interference; Trump Vague on Agenda for Second Term; Trump and Biden Hit Key States in Final Days of Campaign. Aired 5-6a ET
• Biden Promises To Undo Trump's Unorthodox Foreign Policy; Initial Election Results May Look Different From Final Outcome; Facebook Fact-Checkers Say They Are Unbiased; NYT: Some Trump Officials Worrying About Day After Election; COVID-19 At Record Levels Two Days From Election. Aired 4-5a ET
• Biden Makes First Joint Campaign Appearance With Obama; Polls: Trump Leads Among Those Still To Vote; Battle For The U.S. Senate; COVID-19 At Record Levels Two Days From Election. Aired 3-4a ET


October 31, 2020
• Biden Speaks At Rally in Detroit After Former President Obama; President Trump Rallies in Pennsylvania; Residents Pepper-Sprayed By Police In North Carolina; U.S. Sets Global Record With 99,000-Plus New COVID-19 Cases On Friday; Lawsuits Mount Coast-To-Coast Over Mail-in Ballots. Aired 7-8p ET
• Trump And Biden Battle In Key States In Final Stretch Of Campaign; Former President Barack Obama Campaigns For Biden In Detroit; Candidates Campaign In Pennsylvania And Michigan As Pandemic Rages Across The U.S. Aired 6-7p ET
• Trump And Biden Battle In Key States In Final Stretch Of Campaign; Trump, Biden Vie For Ohio With 2.5-Million-Plus Votes Already Cast; Coronavirus Cases Spiking In U.S.; Trump And Surrogates Continue To Downplay Coronavirus Deaths; England To Go Into Second National Lockdown. Aired 5-6p ET
• COVID-19 Spikes In Final Days Of 2020 Campaign; Obama Campaigns With Biden In Michigan; Trump Holding Four Campaign Rallies In Pennsylvania Today, A State He Won In 2016; England To Go Into Second National Lockdown; Dr. David Shulkin, Former VA Secretary, Discusses Record High Cases In U.S. On Friday, Trump Claiming Doctors Profiting From Inflating COVID Cases, Deaths; A Record 90 Million Voters Have Already Cast Ballots. Aired 4-5p ET
• Obama Offers Personal Testimonial For Biden At First Joint Event Of Campaign; U.S. Reports Record-High 99,000-Plus New Daily Cases Friday; Biden Holds Ten-Point National Lead In CNN Poll Of Polls; England To Go Into Second National Lockdown; A Look At How Absentee Ballots Are Processed In Georgia; Businesses Boarding Up over Concerns of Post-Election Unrest; Trump Campaigns in Reading, Pennsylvania. Aired 3-4p ET
• Former President Barack Obama and Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Give Campaign Speeches in Flint Michigan; U.S. Breaks World Record for Single-Day COVID-19 Case Count at Nearly 100,000 Infections; Former President Barack Obama and Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Emphasize Voter Turnout in Rally Speeches. Aired 2-3p ET
• Trump Crisscrossing Pennsylvania With Four Events Today; Obama, Biden Make First Joint Campaign Appearance In Michigan; U.S. Breaks Global Record For Daily COVID Cases; CNN On The Ground In Battleground States Watching Early Voting; Melania Trump Speaks In Battleground Wisconsin; Soon, Obama Campaigns With Biden In Michigan; Obama Speaks With Lebron James In Virtual Chat On Importance Of Voting. Aired 1-2p ET
• Pence Speaks In North Carolina; Trump And Biden Battle For Support In Rust Belt States; Next Hour: Obama Campaigns With Biden In Michigan; GA Senator Pulls Out Of Final Debate To Campaign With Trump; "Do Not Wait": Court Cases Throw Late-Arriving Votes Into Doubt; Trump Speaks At First Of Four Rallies In Pennsylvania Today. Aired 12-1p ET
• Trump And Biden Make Final Push With Three Days Until Election; More Than 90 Million Ballots Cast In Early Voting; U.S. Reports Highest Ever Daily New Coronavirus Case Count; Spotlight Shines On Contentious Senate Races; Sen. Kamala Harris Stumps In Battleground Florida; Vice President Pence Speaks In North Carolina. Aired 11a-12p ET
• U.S. Breaks World Record for Single-Day COVID-19 Case Count of Nearly 100,000 Infections; President Trump Continues to Hold Outdoor Rallies in Swing States on Campaign Trail; President Trump Suggests Hospitals Inflating COVID-19 Cases for Monetary Gain; Kentucky Democratic Senate Candidate Amy McGrath Interview on Reasons for Running against Senator Mitch McConnell; Actor Sean Connery Dies; Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Campaigns in Battleground States Ahead of Election; Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) Pulls Out of Final Debate with Democratic Challenger Jon Ossoff; Americans Set Records Early Voting in States Across U.S.; State Courts across United States Make Different Decisions Regarding Counting of Mail-In Ballots. Aired 10-11a ET


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